On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 15:02 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 3/29/09, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 09:23 -0500, Chuck wrote: > >> I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent > >> 5.2 install. > <snip> > >> An rpm check of both firefox and the flash plugin return with no > >> complaints. > >> > <snip> > > I notice you said in another post that shockwave came default. Here too > > I guess. But when I test at the site Lanny referenced, it fails for me > > too. When I try to download, it says I'm not supported. I just wondered > > if your shockwave works. > > I believe, but am not positive, from some reading on the Adobe site, > that one of their viewers also contains the other one. So, I suspect > that the one it says is not available for your box or mine is included > in the one that we do have installed and running. Yeah, I'm planning on doing a "provides" later to see where it comes from. That may give a clue as to why it doesn't work now. > > <snip> > > > My setup is "box stock" for this stuff, so I don't think you should need > > to mess with tarballs, source, betas, etc. > <snip> > Bill: Do you remember if there is a command one needs to use, to get > the plugin to work? You mean for flash player, not shockwave, right? At my age, only two brain cells function simultaneously! ;-) So of course I don't remember! But I do recall that during our lengthy pursuit of similar problems some folks made suggestions. I suspect that the wrapper is the bit that's needed. I've hit the archives and found this. I don't know enough to say if it is needed. But the suggestion was from the RH triage person (Matej - suddenly dropped off the thread). http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-December/068898.html I don't think this next is related, but ... http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-December/069744.html > I'm not sure if I had to do that for Flash or another Firefox Plugin > or if it was for something else. The only other think I can think of is to gointo the place in FF where you manage add-ons and look in the applications area to see that the flash reader is referenced. I'm going to start there for the shockwave thingy. > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill